when president bush came to a democratic led house and senate in september of 2008 and said we had a cal crisis that could thread a depression if we did not act, as you recall the minority of republicans or the majority of republicans did not support their own president. but the majority of democrats, a handy majority of democrats did support president bush because we thought the country was in crisis and needed help. not in a partisan way but in a bipartisan way and we were there. i think that would be the same in working with john boehner if, in fact, he can get significant numbers of people and reach an agreement with the president. >> steny hoyer, thanks so much. happy holidays to you, if you can have any holiday. we wish you well. >> we're here ready to work. thank you, andrea. happy holidays to you and to your viewers. >> thanks very much again. that want does it for us a very busy edition of "andrea mitchell reports." we'll take a few days off. my friend tamron hall as a look on "news nation." >> coming up right now in the meantime in our next hour one week after the shootings at